Brian Butcher, a former assistant football coach at Los Gatos High School in California who was apparently angry about being fired last year, was arrested for attempting to burn the school down over the weekend.

Officers found that the glass door to the gym had been smashed by a shot put, [Sgt. Randy] Rimple said. They also found Butcher driving a vehicle on the front lawn of the campus, police said.

Butcher had flammable materials in his possession, Rimple said. He declined to elaborate, saying the investigation was continuing.

Just so we have an accurate background here: he coached receivers and defensive backs on the freshman/sophomore team. He’s 34 years old, and he was an assistant coach for the not-even-JV team. A job that he couldn’t hold. So let’s not be surprised he couldn’t pull off setting the school on fire. We should probably be impressed he found materials that could catch fire. Even if his car was probably just filled with sticks and paper.

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09.09.08 at 3:39 pm

Porkpie

Shit, he just had some corn likker. he wasnt gunna set nuffin on fire.

09.09.08 at 3:41 pm

Nigel Incubator-Jones

And then Mr. Lumbergh told me to talk to payroll and payroll told me to talk to Mr. Lumbergh and and and I still haven’t received my paycheck and he took my stapler, and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it, and I really don’t appreciate garbage…

09.09.08 at 3:56 pm

Readykilowatt

Oh, he’s going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for this.

09.09.08 at 4:08 pm

ognihs

RAWR FOOBAW!

09.09.08 at 4:20 pm

Enrico Pallazzo

Where the hell do you get a shotput? The guy is resourceful. A disgrace, yes, but an innovator when it comes to smashing doors.